Daily Norseman
In a bit of a mild surprise, the National Football League has decided to keep a game that has just about no playoff implications in a prime time slot this week.
The Sunday Night Football matchup at Jerryworld between our Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys will remain in the Sunday Night spot on NBC, despite there potentially being more attractive matchups available.
Per the NFL’s flex scheduling rules, between Weeks 14 and 17 the league only has to give six days notice before moving games from the Sunday afternoon spots into the Sunday night position. But, since NBC was advertising the Vikings/Cowboys matchup last night during the Texans/Chiefs game, and because the league would rather repeatedly punch themselves in the groin than take the Cowboys out of a prime time slot, the game stays where it is.
The Vikings are still, mathematically. . .barely. . .alive for a postseason berth, according to the latest calculations from NFL.com. It would require the Vikings to win out and get help from about half a dozen other sources, but it’s still a remote possibility. The Cowboys have about a 6% chance at the postseason, a number that dropped dramatically after their loss to Detroit this past Thursday night.
But, despite that, the entire country is going to get a good look at the Vikings and the Cowboys in Week 15, as we’ll be waiting all day for Sunday Night. We’ll be bringing you all of the news leading up to this one as we always do, so be sure to keep checking back with us for all of the latest.
